Disclaimer: First Chapter
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"How is your arm doing?" Xenovia asked Naruto as she saw him wrapping white bandages that were completely covered in rune markings on the inside of them, leaving the outside to only show white. Naruto had taken his glove off and rolled up his sleeve to show that his entire arm was covered in red scales strangely enough, and resting on top of his hand was a green circle gem. Normally the Boosted Gear was said to take on a gauntlet look to it, but from what she was seeing it looked like Naruto's entire arm just a normal human arm covered in dragon scales, with his fingernails having turned darker red as well. The green gem was glowing lightly, but the glow was growing slightly dimmer the more of his arm her cover up... thankfully the gem wasn't bulky, so he couldf easily hide it and much of hire forearm with his glove.
"The lucky ba... the lucky son of a bi... Naruto got lucky and is now the newest wielder of the Boosted Gear... and it mutated his arm into a dragon arm." Raynare informed Xenovia from one of the benches in the church. She couldn't even insult Naruto now with her new leash keeping her in control, making sure that she couldn't do anything that Naruto would find unpleasant, which would turn out was a lot of the stuff that she normally did. It would take a lot of getting used to, but she believed that she would be able to manage somehow.
"The Boosted Gear? How about the boy?" Xenovia asked as she touched the scale covered arm as Naruto wrapped it in bandages. She could see that the runes glowed red before they actually touched the arm, sticking the bandages to his arm so that only he himself could take them off. She had seen Naruto seal away somebody that had gotten possessed in a similar way, when their own arm had been possessed he had sealed off that arm in a way that they could still use it, while keeping the demon in check. Only Naruto could remove the bandages, of course, they could still be destroyed by powerful attacks.
"Issei lives, and he will be able to live the normal life of a boy not condemed to hell for trading his soul to a devil. I already erased his memory of Raynare, and us... I even erased the memories he had of me from school." Naruto informed her as he grit his teeth and continued to wrap up his arm. He rolled his sleeve back down, and it clung over his skin and the bandages just as tightly as before. Naruto groaned when he felt the new power being sealed away, but he grinned either way.
Ddraig may have decided to make Naruto the new wielder, but Naruto wanted to become powerful by his own power. Anyway, Naruto already had a fighting style of his own, and it would take training with this Sacred Gear before he would be willing to even try and use it. Honestly, he didn't want a Sacred Gear, he was an Exorcist, and this wasn't a Sacred Gear that was generally approved of by the Church. If it got out he had this Sacred Gear, then he would be labled as a Heretic and kicked out of the Church. Xenovia knew that he didn't have this gear by choice, so she wouldn't tell anyone, and like him she knew that the Church was everything to people like them.
Finishing up wrapping his fingers, Naruto slid his glove back onto his hand and moved his arm around. Naruto couldn't even feel and ounce of the power of the Boosted Gear leaking into him now that he had sealed his arm up. Naruto stood up, before he threw a test punch at one of the rows of benches and sent a near invisible burst of his chakra out of his bandaged up fist. All of the benches were flipped over by a wave of air pressure from his fist, and he looked to see that the bandages were still in place. He smiled, before he took his sunglasses off and held Excalibur Mimic in his left hand... and no pain, meaning that he could still double wield his blades if he wanted to.
Naruto held Excalibur Mimic in his left hand, before he held his hand out and summoned Durandal in a collection of golden dust. Naruto held the two swords with a smile, seeing that he could still hold two Holy Swords even if his body had been tainted by a dragon like it was. Naruto turned his sword back into sunglasses, before he de-summoned Durandal and placed the sunglasses on his face.
"So Father, what do you plan of doing with the Boosted Gear... no doubt the wielder of the Divine Dividing will come after you now." Raynare mocked Naruto lightly, and he scoffed and sat back on the bench that wasn't knocked over and placed his feet on the bench in front of him.
"Like I care. There is no law saying that I have to fight him or her. I couldn't care less about some pathetic fight between dragons from hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Just because Ddraig is in my arm, doesn't mean that Albion is my enemy... anyway, if the wielder of the Divine Dividing tries anything... well just one more Sacred Gear to seal away." Naruto said without a care. Fights like this had no meaning for him anyway, and if his 'rival' tried anything against him then he or she could kiss their Sacred Gear goodbye. Naruto wasn't in the mood for a stalker that was going to try and fight him over and over, and despite hating and wishing to kill every Pure-Blooded Devil alive, Naruto wasn't some senseless murderer.
He only killed when he had a reason to kill.
Of course, punching the Gremory girl had made him feel REAL good.
"When do we return to the Vatican?" Xenovia asked with a serious tone of voice, making Naruto sighed and open his book. Naruto turned to a random page, before he bit the tip of his right index finger and started to write on a certain page. He used his own blood as ink, and soon the ink vanished and was replaced with new words. The words were simple, and Naruto read them, before he cursed lightly.
"Raynare will be sent to the Vatican tomorrow via teleportation, but you and I are to remain in the city until the Excalibur Rapidly is located. They want us to remain in a hidden location, keeping our own Holy Swords safe from capture. When the spy has been located, then we can return back to the Vatican." Naruto said with a sigh of relief at not having to deal with Raynare. Honestly, female or not, Naruto had no desire to deal with her, even as an experiment to see how the Angel Player system would affect a Fallen Angel. Raynare was only alive because she was useful to them to learn if they could turn the stronger Fallen Angels back into Angels, and if they could, they could weaken the Fallen Angels and increase the power of the Angels again.
"So, what are we going to do next?" Xenovia asked, and Naruto sighed, before he closed his eyes and crossed his arms.
"It will annoy me, but now that the mission is over we are required to tell the Gremory girl about what we are now that we have no true reason to be here. The stand-still demands that we alert them to our presense, and while they can't kick us out because a Church is stationed here... they can make things annoying for us... it would help if you come with me." Naruto told her with an annoyed expression. When they were keeping his identity from Rias and her peerage the first time, that was because they had to do it. His mission was now over, and with it over he was required to tell the owner of this territory that he was here, and really with the Church.
"... You aren't telling me something." Xenovia said after a moment, and Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Okay, you caught me. They are sending that girl that almost healed a devil over here to assist us." Naruto said with a sheepish smile.
The girl he was talking about was one of the Sisters of the Church, and while she had been considered a Holy Woman at one point, she had been reduced to a lower level when she had almost healed a devil that had been injured. Lucky for her, Naruto had been at the Vatican that day reporting in from a mission, and he had come across her before she could heal the Devil, and being swift with his fury he had killed the devil before she could so much as touch the man with her healing abilities.
She had been put on a secret trial for her attempted actions, and she had been given a fair chance when others learned that she hadn't actually done any healing. She had been stripped of her titles though, and was no longer 'officially' with the Church anymore. Now she was just one of the volunteers that chose to 'volunteer' at the Church in her free time, which she had a whole lot of. Everyone still refered to her as Sister these days, even though she wasn't a real Nun. The girl was a nice person, and it was why Naruto had stuck his neck out for her.
The condition for her not being labled a Heretic for her Sacred Gear was that Naruto, one of the Strongest Idiots and a wielder of Durandal, had stuck his neck out for her and stated how useful her Sacred Gear would be. The ability to heal others with her healing gifted Sacred Gear was truly a gift from God, and for them to be stupid enough to think of kicking her out just because she had almost made a mistake was stupid, and would weaken them. Devils had better healing abilities than most humans, with Naruto being an exception because he had an even better healing factor than Devils, and her healing skills would no doubt be PRICELESS should a war ever break out.
Of course, if she had to do jobs now as well. As proof of her loyalty, if an Exorcist told her to do something, then she had to do it. She had been placed on the bottom of the totem pole, so most of the time she was just sent on missions with groups of rookies that would need more healing than the more experienced people. The girl had been forced to learn the basics on self-defence because of this, and she was taught how to create barriers that would stop Devils from sensing their locations, something that was a great skill to have.
"Asia Argento you mean? The girl with the Twilight Healing, a Sacred Gear that can heal almost any wound?" Xenovia asked to make sure, and Naruto nodded and opened his book before he looked over some details in it.
"Yes, that is the one. She will arive in three days time, and I am to meet her at the airport... good news, the remaining fragments are still safe, but there was another attempt at taking Excalibur Transparency." Naruto informed Xenovia, who looked thoughtful over this new information. They had expected there to be another attempt made, and after the loses that they had suffered last time, they had hoped that the Fallen Angels would wait longer than just a few months before they would try and steal more blade, only this time they hadn't suffered any loses.
"That girl... she was lucky. If you hadn't been there and killed that devil when you did, then she would have been kicked out of the Church for good." Xenovia stated with a frown on her face. She wasn't the most strict person around, she had some very flexible beliefs in certain issues. Issues such as people like Asia, who both were and weren't with the Church. The girl was very restricted to what she could and couldn't do, and she wasn't allowed to even leave the Church anymore without an active Exorcist around to watch her.
It was one of her conditions, to prevent her from healing a devil. She was always under watch, and Xenovia herself had been on what had been dubbed by other Exorcists as working the Twilight Shift... Xenovia actually found that very funny truthfully. Asia had a Sacred Gear called Twilight Gear, and when people watched her they usually refered to that fact as the Twilight Shift.
"Yeah she was, and we are going to pick her up. Because of the importance of our current jobs, she is to make sure that we are healthy while he do what we do. Fallen Angel, there is a bath in the basement, go heat it up." Naruto ordered, and Raynare grumbled loudly as she got up and started to head towards the basement to go heat up the bath. When she was gone, Naruto looked at his own arm again, before he felt Xenovia grab his hand and look at him with understanding in her eyes, and a smile on her face.
"If you get kicked out of the Church for this, I will follow you. Your my best friend after all, and they can't fault you for keeping the Boosted Gear away from the Devils and Fallen Angels. You have been my friend for as long as I can remember, so if you get kicked out I go with you." Xenovia said with a smile on her face, and Naruto punched her in the arm lightly. He had a smile on his face, and Xenovia rubbed her arm with a small smile as well.
"I would talk you out of that, but your an idiot. You would do it no matter what I said." Naruto told her with a light grin on his face, while she punched him in the arm as well.
"You're an idiot too you know." Xenovia commented back at him, and Naruto laughed a little. He had to admit, it was a comforting thought to know of one person that would never leave him no matter what. He actually wanted to thank Xenovia, but he there was no promise of him getting kicked from the Church. He had already sealed up his arm for the moment after all, and though he had never sealed away a Longinus before, but he wasn't worried about that with Xenovia here.
The were the Strongest Idiots of the Church after all.
Chapter End!
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